The Overwintering Project

My printmaking practice has slowed down heaps since I started work on a big new project at Brain Injury Matters in May (more about that in another post). 

I am also currently working very hard to organise the Disability Pride is Back! community art project. Please see my last post to find out more. 

And I am really missing the thinking, experimenting and creating time that goes into making new print works, that can be so nourishing.

But somehow, I recently found the time, in snatches, to create a new linocut.

Kate Gorringe-Smith is the amazing organiser of The Overwintering Project. And I really wanted to contribute. 

So here's the result. It's a 2 block linocut. A 3rd block was planned but I ran out of time. So I kept it simple. Two of the prints of the edition of 7 have been donated to the project, to support the building of awareness of the importance of migratory birds and wetlands.

A Summer Stint in the Jaw Bone, linocut, edition of 7

"I feel lucky to live not far from some amazing wetlands in Williamstown and Altona, including the Jawbone Marine Sanctuary. Due to its history as a Rifle Range, it has been fenced off for over 80 years, protecting a distinctive and wide biodiversity, that is also home to the only remaining site of mangroves that grow on a basalt plain in Victoria. And I am grateful to all the people who have worked so hard over so many years to protect such coastal lands, as well as the ongoing work of people across the world to protect wetlands that keep not just the free global passage of migratory birds, but keep our planet alive." Larissa MacFarlane 2018